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Keiser University
Bachelor of Science in Nursing
Course Prefix & Number:
NUR 4825
Course Title:
Professional Nursing I & II
Course Format:
Face to Face
Credit Hours:
2.0 Semester Credit Hours
Lecture Hours:
30 hours
Course Schedule:
Tuesday 0730 AM XXXXXXXXXXAM, Building 2, Room 204
Prerequisites:
ABSN/FBSN: Successful completion of prerequisite requirements and acceptance into the major BSN core
Faculty:
Joan Rhoden, MSN/Ed., RN
Office Hours:
12:00 – 1:00 PM XXXXXXXXXX
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Course Description:
This course introduces the development of a professional nurse. Subject matter will include nursing history, nursing theories, models of practice, various venues of practice, and roles of a professional nurse. Effective communication as a professional nurse will be addressed. Pre-licensure BSN course
Program Philosophy & Mission
The philosophy and mission of the Bachelor of Science in
Nursing (Pre-licensure) Program is congruent with that of Keiser University. The Keiser University mission statement and philosophy maintain that the University is a two-year, four-year, and graduate-level institution that prepare students of diverse backgrounds for career entry, advancement, or degree completion. One of the primary goals of the University is to continually change, improve, and ensure the effectiveness of the University’s programs in preparing students for successful careers. These statements are testimony to the integral relationship of the Bachelor of Science in Nursing (Pre-licensure) Program to the mission of Keiser University and the commitment of the University to the Program’s implementation and success. Educating registered nurses at the baccalaureate level and thereby enhancing their ability to achieve growth and success in their careers meets the criteria of one of the major goals of the University.
This framework includes the
oad competency areas of knowledge, critical thinking, skills performance, collaboration, caring, and professionalism. Each of these areas are reflected in program outcomes that build upon prior learning and incorporate competencies at the baccalaureate level as articulated in American Nurses Association (ANA)’s Scope and Standards of Nursing Practice.
Program Goal(s): Keiser University’s Bachelor of Science in Nursing
program enables students to provide evidence-based collaborative care to diverse patient populations in varied settings. At the conclusion of the program, BSN graduates will be able to:
1. Enact leadership, clinical decision-making, and effective communications skills to provide and evaluate safe high quality nursing services.
2. Creatively engage in rational inquiry utilizing evidencebased nursing knowledge in both well-defined, relatively common clinical situations, and in complex clinical situations.
3. Employ information management and patient care technology knowledge and skills to enhance the delivery of quality patient care.
4. Maintain an understanding of system and organizational level policy in order to provide appropriate direct and indirect nursing care for ethnically, culturally, and/or spiritually diverse patients and their families within varied healthcare systems and settings.
5. Participate in and lead interprofessional healthcare efforts to design and manage the care of individuals and their families.
6. Practice nursing within ethical, legal, and humanistic frameworks, promoting nursing’s values of altruism, autonomy, human dignity, integrity, and social justice to provide quality, cost-effective care founded on health promotion and disease prevention principles to individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations across the lifespan and across the continuum of healthcare environments
Program Student Learning Outcomes:
Keiser University’s Bachelor of Science in nursing program enables students to provide evidence-based collaborative care to diverse patient populations in varied settings. The Programmatic Student Learning Outcomes are a culmination of measurable competencies, consistent with the American Association of Colleges of Nursing XXXXXXXXXXEssentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice (2008), which enable graduates to practice within a complex healthcare system.
The Programmatic Student Learning Outcomes and their applicable Essentials are:
CARE COORDINATION
o Utilizes effective leadership, communication and collaboration for shared decision making with the patient and multidisciplinary healthcare providers in the deliberate organization, design and management of safe, high quality and high value care for culturally and spiritually diverse patients across the continuum of healthcare environments.
· Essential I: Liberal Education for Baccalaureate Generalist Nursing Practice.
· Essential II: Basic Organizational and System Leadership for Quality Care and Patient Safety.
· Essential VI: Interprofessional Communication and Collaboration for Improving Patient Health Outcomes.
· Essential IX: Baccalaureate Generalist Nursing Practice.
RESEARCH AND TRANSLATION
o Engages in scientific inquiry with a spirit of creativity, utilizes evidence-based nursing knowledge, and translates data and information into nursing practice to address common clinical scenarios.
· Essential III: Scholarship for Evidence Based Practice.
· Essential VI: Interprofessional Communication and Collaboration for Improving Patient Health Outcomes.
INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
o Utilizes patient care technology and information systems to communicate, collaborate and support clinical decision-making in the delivery of quality patient care in a variety of healthcare settings.
· Essential IV: Information Management and Application of Patient Care Technology.
· Essential VI: Interprofessional Communication and Collaboration for Improving Patient Health Outcomes.
ADVOCACY AND POLICY
o Integrates professional nursing values, ethical, legal, and theoretical practice frameworks fundamental to the discipline of nursing to influence health promotion, disease prevention, healthcare policy, and regulation across the lifespan and practice environments.
· Essential V: Health Care Policy, Finance, and Regulatory Environments.
· Essential VII: Clinical Prevention and Population Health
· Essential VIII: Professionalism and Professional Values
AACN: The Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice
Essential I:
Liberal Education for
Baccalaureate Generalist Nursing Practice
A solid base in liberal education provides the cornerstone for the practice and education of nurses.
Essential II:
Basic Organizational and System
Leadership for Quality Care and Patient Safety
Knowledge and skills in leadership, quality improvement, and patient safety are necessary to provide high quality health care.
Essential III:
Scholarship for Evidence Based Practice
Professional nursing practice is grounded in the translation of cu
ent evidence into one’s practice
Essential IV:
Information Management and
Application of Patient Care Technology
Knowledge and skills in information management and patient care technology are critical in the delivery of quality patient care.
Essential V:
Health Care Policy, Finance, and
Regulatory Environments
Healthcare policies, including financial and regulatory, directly and indirectly influence the nature and functioning of the healthcare system and thereby are important considerations in professional nursing practice.
Essential VI: Interprofessional
Communication and
Collaboration for Improving Patient Health Outcomes
Communication and collaboration among healthcare professionals are critical to delivering high quality and safe patient care.
Essential VII:
Clinical Prevention and Population Health
Health promotion and disease prevention at the individual and population level are necessary to improve population
health and are important components of baccalaureate generalist nursing practice.
Essential VIII: Professionalism and Professional Values
Professionalism and the inherent values of altruism, autonomy, human dignity, integrity, and social justice are fundamental to the discipline of nursing.
Essential IX:
Baccalaureate Generalist
Nursing Practice
The baccalaureate-graduate nurse is prepared to practice with patients, including individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations across the lifespan and across the continuum of healthcare environments.
The baccalaureate graduate understands and respects the variations of care, the increased complexity, and the increased use of healthcare resources inherent in caring for patients.
American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN XXXXXXXXXXThe Essentials of baccalaureate education for professional nursing practice. Retrieved from http:
www.aacn.nche.edu/publications/order-form
accalaureate-essentials
Course Objectives/Outcomes:
Upon completion of NUR 4825, the student will:
1. Relate key factors in the evolution of the nursing profession including historical developments, educational pathways, scope of practice, social context for nursing, professional associations, and professional identity. (Care coordination, Advocacy and Policy, Essentials I, III, VIII, IX; QSEN: PCC, EBP)
2. Compare and contrast various conceptual, theoretical, philosophical, and scientific bases of nursing practice. (Care coordination, Advocacy and Policy Research and Translation, Essentials I, III, IX; QSEN: PCC, EBP)
3. Recognize the influence of historical, social, economic, and political events on evolving definitions of nursing. (Care coordination, Advocacy and Policy Research and Translation, Essentials III, V, IX; QSEN: PCC, QI)
4. Elicit knowledge and promote positive interactions within health care team(s)
oundaries. (Care coordination, Advocacy and Policy Research and Translation, Essentials VI, VII, VIII, IX; QSEN: PCC, T & C, S)
5. Participate in life-long learning. (Care coordination, Advocacy and Policy
Essentials VIII, IX; QSEN: EBP)
Grading and Evaluation Methods:
Evaluation
Percent of Total Grade
Assignments
25%
Personal Philosophy Paper
15%
Projects
30%
Quizzes
25%
Post Test
5%
Total Percentage:
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To advance in the nursing core of the program students are required to:
· Earn a minimum course grade of “B” with an 80.00%
· Earn a minimum score of 88% on each dosage calculation test as XXXXXXXXXXrequired (2 Attempts only)
· Pass each critical skills performance for each core course according to guidelines as required (2 Attempts only)
· Pass each clinical component for each core course (when applicable)
Grading Scale
Letter Grade
Numeric Grade
A
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B
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C
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D
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F
Up to 64.99%
Required Textbook:
Finkleman, A., & Kenner, C XXXXXXXXXXProfessional nursing concepts: Competencies and quality leadership. (4th ed.).
Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett IBSN: XXXXXXXXXX
American Psychological Association.